astray

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English

Etymology

From Middle English astraien or by apheresis straien, from Old French estraier (“to stray”), from late Medieval Latin extravagari (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagārī (“to wander, stray”).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈstɹeɪ/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Adverb

astray

  1. In a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.
    • 1907, Virgil, “1.X”, in Edward Fairfax Taylor, transl., The Æneid of Virgil‎, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.:
      Go, set the storm-winds free, / And sink their ships or scatter them astray, / And strew their corpses forth, to weltering waves a prey.

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References

  1. ^ “astray”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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